An already hectic holiday travel day was made more chaotic with two separate plane collisions on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport just hours apart on Monday.
In the first crash, an American Airlines jet that was taxiing to its gate clipped the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane, local ABC affiliate station WCVB reported.
“That was terrible. It was very scary. All of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below,” Evelyn Pipione, a Frontier passenger, told the news station.
An American Airlines jet taxing to a gate clipped the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane at Logan Airport Monday. Douglas Garcia via Storyful
Video obtained by Storyful shows the battered wing of the smaller Frontier plane underneath the wing of the larger American aircraft.
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“So, you can see the wing actually broke on the bottom, so the bigger plane — the wing is over, and then ours is cracked at the bottom,” Douglas Garcia, who took the footage, told WCVB.
The American Airlines plane had just come from London’s Heathrow Airport while the Frontier flight was set to take off to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
Passengers and crew members were removed from both aircraft so the planes could be inspected for damage, and the Texas-bound Frontier flight was canceled — just three days before Thanksgiving, the station reported, citing Massport.
No injuries were reported on either plane, according to Massport.
Video and photos of the collision show the battered wing of the smaller Frontier plane underneath the wing of the larger American aircraft. Douglas Garcia via Storyful
Hours later, a JetBlue airplane that was being towed by a vehicle smacked into a Cape Air plane that had just landed at Logan from Nantucket and was waiting for a gate to open, the local station reported.
The Cape Air plane was occupied by two pilots and three passengers, while the JetBlue aircraft was vacant. No injuries were reported, but both pilots were taken to the hospital out of an abundance of caution, according to the outlet.
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“It [was] just red lights everywhere,” Caroline Agid told the station. “It looks like the front top of the Cape Air plane got smushed. It was a chaotic mess.”
Agid was supposed to board the JetBlue plane involved for a flight to Orlando. Her flight was ultimately delayed three hours after JetBlue found another plane for the passengers.
The FAA and the different airlines are investigating the two collisions.
ALLSTON, MASS. (WHDH) – Boston police are searching for a gunman who opened fire in Allston Thursday and left one person hurt.
Police responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of Brighton Avenue at approximately 6:46 p.m. When officers arrived, they said they found a male “juvenile” suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim’s age has not been released.
Boston police said the shooter fled the scene and remains at large. No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Boston police.
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A State Police trooper who was allegedly found “slumped over” in his car at around 5 a.m. in the South End with an open container of High Noon vodka has been “relieved of duty.”
Mass State Police confirmed to the Herald Wednesday night that Trooper Donovan Preston, 31, arrested for alleged drunken driving in Boston this past weekend, “has been relieved of duty.” Preston’s base pay is listed as $80,213.
A Boston Police report states that police arrived at Herald Street on Saturday to see Preston “stopped in lane 2 of the road” with his brake lights on. The suspect was slumped over “with his eyes closed,” the report adds.
“The officer observed that the car was on and in drive. The officer observed an open container of alcohol (High Noon) in the cupholder,” according to the report. The BPD officer then knocked on the window “for approximately 10 seconds before the suspect lifted his head up.”
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Once he picked his head up, police said he appeared “confused and he looked around. The suspect’s vehicle began to roll to which the officer announced, ‘Boston Police. Open the Door.’ ”
Preston stopped on the three-lane, outbound road with his black BMW in the middle of two lanes.
A State Police spokesman said in an email: “Trooper Donovan Preston was relieved of duty and will be subject to a department discipline process.” All other comments were directed toward the police report.
That report, provided to the Herald Wednesday night, added that State Police were notified after Preston’s arrest.
The can of High Noon was logged into the evidence book.
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This latest OUI case comes as State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley is being investigated in an alleged drunken driving fatal crash in Woburn in 2023 that killed a disabled passenger in a van.
In the Quigley case, his blood alcohol level reportedly tested at a .114 at the hospital following the crash (the legal limit is .08). That detail came out in a wrongful death suit filed by the victim Angelo Schettino’s family.
‘Unless he’s s###-faced, I’m not worried’: Mass State Police dash cam catches aftermath of deadly cruiser crash [+video]
The smashed van at the Woburn crash scene. (MSP body camera video screengrab)
